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Zoning board approves gaming/‘games’ use at Eighth Street site with parking, membership conditions
Summary
The board granted Whitestone Homes LLC permission to convert part of a First Floor into a commercial recreation/games operation, conditioned on demonstrated leased parking (four spaces within 250 feet) and limits on the use as testified (no pay-to-play skill-game machines).
The Allentown City Zoning Hearing Board voted to permit a commercial recreation use at 1115 South Eighth Street operated by Whitestone Homes LLC, after conditioning approval on evidence that four off-site parking spaces will be leased within 250 feet of the property and that the operation match how it was described at the hearing.
Owner Zecharia Levy testified he is the sole owner of Whitestone Homes LLC and described the proposed front-first-floor use as a small “games”/video- and console-based operations targeting mostly teenagers and young adults. The proposed operator, Cadata Jarnagan, described the plan as a supervised, membership-based gaming and homework-support environment rather than a pay-to-play skill-gaming parlor. Jarnagan said she expects about 10…
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